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  • Advowson

    A right of presentation to a church or benefice. He who possesses this right is called the patron or advocate. When there is no patron, or he neglects to exercise his right within six months, it is called a lapse, and a title is given to the ordinary to […]

  • Advowson

    A right of presentation to a church or benefice. He who possesses this right is called the patron or advocate. When there is no patron, or he neglects to exercise his right within six months, it is called a lapse, and a title is given to the ordinary to […]

  • Consistory

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Consistory Meaning of Consistory In ecclesiastical law. An assembly of cardinals convoked by the pope. The consistory is either public or secret. It is public when the pope receives princes or gives […]

  • Glebe

    In Ecclesiastical Law. The land which belongs to a church. It is the dowry of the church. Gleba est terra qua consistit dos ecclesiae. 9 Cranch (U. S.) 329. In Civil Law. The soil of an inheritance. There were serfs of the glebe, called glebae addicti. Code, 11. 47. 7. 21; Nov, 54, c. […]

  • Glebe

    In Ecclesiastical Law. The land which belongs to a church. It is the dowry of the church. Gleba est terra qua consistit dos ecclesiae. 9 Cranch (U. S.) 329. In Civil Law. The soil of an inheritance. There were serfs of the glebe, called glebae addicti. Code, 11. 47. 7. 21; Nov, 54, c. […]

  • Ordinary

    Regular , usual , normal, common , often recurring, customary.

  • Month

    Ordinarily, the term means calendar month, which consists unequally of thirty or thirty-one days, except February, which consists of twenty-eight and in leap year of twenty-nine. However, where it is not otherwise defined by statute , the term would be construed at common law […]

  • Month

    Ordinarily, the term means calendar month, which consists unequally of thirty or thirty-one days, except February, which consists of twenty-eight and in leap year of twenty-nine. However, where it is not otherwise defined by statute , the term would be construed at common law […]

  • Regidor

    In Spanish law. One of a body, never exceeding twelve, who formed a part of the ayuntamiento, or municipal council, in every capital of a jurisdiction in the colonies of the Indies. The office of regidor was held for life; that is to say, during the pleasure of the supreme authority. In […]

  • Regidor

    In Spanish law. One of a body, never exceeding twelve, who formed a part of the ayuntamiento, or municipal council, in every capital of a jurisdiction in the colonies of the Indies. The office of regidor was held for life; that is to say, during the pleasure of the supreme authority. In […]

  • Decretals

    In ecclesiastical law. Canonical epistles, written by the pope alone, or by the pope and cardinals at the instance or suit of one or more persons, -for the ordering and determining some matter in controversy, and which have the authority of a law in themselves. The decretals were […]

  • Decretals

    In ecclesiastical law. Canonical epistles, written by the pope alone, or by the pope and cardinals at the instance or suit of one or more persons, -for the ordering and determining some matter in controversy, and which have the authority of a law in themselves. The decretals were […]

  • Estadal

    In Spanish law. In Spanish America this was a measure of land of sixteen square varas, or yards. 2 White, New Recop. 139. …

  • Estadal

    In Spanish law. In Spanish America this was a measure of land of sixteen square varas, or yards. 2 White, New Recop. 139. …

  • Peculiar

    While the word sometimes has an offensive meaning, its natural and usual meaning is particular or special. St. Louis M.& S.E.R. Co. v Continental Brick Co., 96 S. W. 1011, 198 Mo. 698.